With the world oil price said to be heading to $200 per barrel and beyond, with grocery prices skyrocketing, and with Earth on the cusp of runaway climate catastrophe, could there be a better time for our prime minister to get serious about weaning Canada off fossil fuels? One
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – James Tapper reports on the UK’s soaring rates of long-term illness caused by COVID-19, while Tara Madden writes about the utter uselessness of people trying to substitute admonitions toward positive thinking for a plan to help people suffering from long COVID. And
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Putin, the Evil Emperor
Vlad Putin is a malevolent little shit who learned what little he knows of humanity in the dungeons of Lubyanka. His greatest achievement was to persuade Boris Yeltsin to take an immunity deal in exchange for handing over the Russian presidency. Once KGB, always KGB. “If it walks like
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kent Sepkowitz examines the many and severe symptoms of COVID-19 which are emerging long after initial infections have been treated as “mild”. – Gabriel Fabreau discusses how the overflow tent in emergency at the Peter Lougheed Centre (like other Canadian health care facilities)
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Bob Moses & ZHU – Desire
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Justin’s White Elephant
The Parliamentary Budget Officer says the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline Trans Mountain pipeline will be a big loser for the federal treasury. With costs now at $21.4 billion and expected to rise further there’s no profit to be had. The government paid top dollar for the project when the private
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Reuters reports on research showing that public health measures implemented in response to COVID-19 also saved hundreds of thousands of lives by limiting the spread of dengue fever. Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, Fredros Okumu, and Madhukar Pai discuss how wealthier countries
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – C Raina MacIntyre offers five reasons to keep wearing a mask even after mandates are removed – and the arguments are even more compelling in areas where waves of infections are still in progress. And Elizabeth Yuko reports on the victims of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Max Planck Society explores how COVID-19 has developed to hide out and mutate within the human body. Tami Luhby discusses how even a receding Omicron wave has continued to have devastating effects on millions of Americans. And Jessie Anton reports on the concerns of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: US Freedom Convoy Gets a Flat
2,000 trucks were expected to make the first leg of the Los Angeles to Washington Freedom Convoy. By the time these protest truckers reach Las Vegas they had amassed a grand total of five trucks and just gave up. Plenty of hurt feelings but organizers are hoping two other
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Cold War II. It Won’t Be Your Grandpa’s Cold War
Cold War II seems to be upon us. The bad news is that it has come on extremely rapidly. The good news – there isn’t any. Mary Elise Sarotte is an expert on my Cold War, Cold War I, and a professor at John Hopkins University. She considers Cold
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Because Nobody Wants to Hear About Climate Change
Guardian cartoonist, Martin Rowson, sums up the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: If Liquor Stores Nix Russian Vodka, Why Can’t Netflix Ditch Steven Segal?
Self-styled tough guy Steven Seagal is not only a terrible actor with a bad hairpiece but a fast friend of Vlad Putin. He’s also, somehow, for some reason, still making the odd movie, straight to video stuff. Putin gave Seagal Russian citizenship in 2016. Now Seagal is wading in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard discusses the reality that long COVID will result in lasting aftereffects even if we eventually manage to get the spread of new variants under control (which is of course itself a long way off). Thomson Reuters reports on new research
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Chilling Words
Ever since Putin started massing troops along Ukraine’s eastern border, I’ve been wondering exactly what Russia’s objectives really were. Put aside the propaganda from Russia about Ukraine posing some kind of threat, and one is left wondering exactly what Putin’s goals are in invading Ukraine. Russia’s claim is that Ukraine
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Canadian Press interviews Dr. Saqib Shahab about the need for Saskatchewan’s citizens to act responsibly in getting vaccinated and taking public health precautions in the absence of any remaining government protections. And Melissa Fuller writes about her conclusion that it’s untenable to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Hey, It’s Moscow. People Disappear All the Time.
There’s been some speculation that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has little to do with Kiev and much to do with threats at home in the Kremlin. There’s a pattern here whether it’s invading Ukraine and seizing Crimea or helping an old reliable put down a democracy uprising in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Mitt Romney – Treading Water in a Sea of Morons
Flawed he may be but Mitt Romney isn’t afraid of calling out his fellow Republicans. “Look, there is no place in either political party for this White nationalism or racism. It’s simply wrong … it’s evil as well,” Romney told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “(Rep.) Marjorie
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: What’s at Stake? Nothing Less Than a Liveable Future.
With our attention glued to Ukraine and seditious truckers, this is not the best moment for something even more serious. Today, the final day of February, 2022, brings a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. You could sum it up with one question – do
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